Bolivar Corona Junior MSU EBE 18 (BWRC)

[BoliDan]

Late morning, kid woke me up at 5am. Already had too much coffee so I'm pairing with the next best thing, A&W Cream Soda. 

Kept at 60%rh 70F. This had 4 months humidor time in my humi.

This bolivar looks good, light wrapper shade and not very briny. Very hard to the touch, like a brick. During the cold draw I can tell this will give me some trouble, so I preemptively give it a perfect draw poke up to the band. Try cold draw again, much better. Flavor is light cocoa and leather.

1st third: brilliant start. The aroma of antique books come to mind. Leather screams through the retrohale. Top soil when it is wet and earth worm come out to play. A little white pepper dances on my tounge.

2nd third. Wife keeps texting me about switching our son to whole milk. Trying to stay focused. Flavors starting to move around a bit, but remain similar in notes. I cant taste the cocoa trying to say hello, but earth and leather keep screaming over it.

Final third: flavors really balanced out now. Rich and refined, staying at medium-full. Top soil gone, but there is still an earthiness lurking. Cocoa was obviously just stopping by because he left completely. But what's this? A hint of peanuts and citrus. Hell yeah, I'll take it!

88/100 Great little smoke. Will probably be 90 with another year on it, and leather top soil calms a bit to let creamy cocoa say hello.

Smoke time: 49 minutes.